Show FOOD ECONOMIES URGED BY 1100 HOOVER Cardinal Principles of Campaign for Conservation of Supplies Set Forth MILLION SIGN FOOD PLEDGES Less Wheat Meat Milk Fats Sugar and Fuel and More Fruit and Vegetables Vege Vege- Vegetables tables Suggested by the Food Administrator Washington The The food economies which rb Herbert rt C. C Hoover of ot the food administration desires to su suggest gest to the American people have been om- om promulgated Th They y constitute the cardinal principles Ales ples of the foot food campaign n as are ore set forth In clear type on n a small card In terms term so definite and aurl concise that all nil allwill allwill will know exactly what and how to tofa fa save vc This This' food administration card will soon oon hang hong In vcr American every kitchen and It its directions will be he followed with scrupulous care b by the home makers of the land lund Already the appeal has hns hasmet hasmet met with n a generous response The Information Is at nt hand that a n million food pledges have already been signed A rending reading of ot the card which Is printed In full below helow shows that to folio fol fol- follow low io Its Us su suggestions entails no real hard hard- ships The rules aro concise and sim sim- Less wheat meat milk fats sugar and fuel More Iole vegetables foo foods s that are not suitable to be sent to camps or firing lines No limiting the food of ot growing children not eating eating eating eat eat- ing b by anyone of ot more food than thun Is needed Buying ing food that Is grown close to the home Is any of this too hard WIN THE WAR BY GIVING YOUR OWN DAILY SERVICE Save the Wheat One One meal a n day Use corn oatmeal rye or barley bread and und wheat non-wheat breakfast foods Order r br bread 24 hours In advance advance ad nd vance so your our baker will not bake bale beyond beyond be be- yond ond his I needs eells Cut the loaf loat on the table and only as ns r required Use stale broad for cooking toast etc Eat lass cake and anti pastry Ol Our r wheat harvest Is far below normal If each person weekly saves one pound of wheat flour that means more bushels bushels bush bush- els of wheat for the allies to mix In their bread This will help them to save democracy Save the Meat Beet Beef Beef mutton or pork not hot more than thun once clail dally daily Use freely vegetables and fish fi h. h At the meat meal serve smaller portions portions' and stews Instead of steaks Make Malee made dishes of all nil left leftovers Do this an and there will be meat ment enough for evel everyone everyone every every- one at nt a n reasonable price We are today killing the dairy cows and female calves as the re result reo re suit sult of high prices Therefore eat less and eat no young meat If we save an ounce of meat each day per person we will have additional supply equal to cattle Save the The Milk The children must have hn milk Use every drop Use but but- buttermilk and sour milk for tor cooking and making cottage cheese Use less cream Save the Fats We Ve We are the worlds world's greatest fat wasters Fat nt is food Butter Butter But But- ter Is essential for the growth and health of children ren Use butter hutter on the table as ns usual but not In cooking Other fats are as os good Reduce use of fried foods Soap contains fats Do not waste It Make your own washIng washing wash wash- Ing soap at home out of the s saved fa fats ts Use third one-third ounce less per day of animal fat and tons will willbe willbe willbe be saved yearly Save the Sugar Sugar Sugar is scarcer We use today three times as us much per person as our allies So there may be enough for all aU at reasonable price use less less candy and sweet drinks Do not stint sugar in putting up fruit and jams They will save sa butter If everyone In America saves one ounce of sugar dally daily It means tons for the year Save the Coal Fuel Coal comes from a distance and und our railways s 's are overburdened overburdened over over- burdened hauling war material Help relieve them b by burning fewer fires Use wood when wh you can get It Use the Perishable Foods Fruits Fruits and vegetables we have in abundance As a u naL nation on we eat too little preen green stuffs Double their use and Improve your health Store potatoes and oth other r roots properly and anti they will keep Begin Begin Be De gin now to can cnn or 01 dl dry all surplus garden gar den products Use Local Supplies Patronize your local producer Distance means money Bu Buy perishable food from the neighborhood neighborhood neighbor neighbor- hood nearest you and thus save sa trans trans- GENERAL RULES l Euy uy less serve smaller portions Preach the Gospel of the Clean Plate Dont Don't eat a fourth meal eal Dont Don't limit the plan plain food of growing grow grow- ing Iny children Watch out for the wastes in the community com com- Full FuJI garbage pails palls In America mean empty dinner palls pails in America and Eu Eu- rope If the more fortunate of our people will avoid waste and eat no more than th n they need the high cost coat of living problem probe lem gem of the less fortunate fortunato will bo be solved T i |